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Talking about and classifying Navajo JISH or medicine bundlesessay 1982 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a short article, based on fieldwork in various locations in Arizona, on Navajo medicine bundles or JISH. The article is primarily concerned with semantics and the author discusses the linguistic meaning and ethnographic usage of the term JISH...Gender and Navajo musicessay 1989 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this paper, Frisbie examines the relationship between gender and music, including traditional and 'new music.' She first looks at idealized constructions of gender and the sexual division of labor as conveyed in myths. The Navajo conceive a dualis...Traditional Navajo womenarticle 1982 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this study, Frisbie examines the life of Navajo women before the Second World War based on ten ethnographies and 14 life histories. She discusses childbirth and child rearing, housekeeping, food preparation, farming, hauling, animal husbandry, rec...Ritual drama in the Navajo House Blessing Ceremonyessay 1980 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The Navajo House Blessing Ceremony is a prophylactic rite, part of the Blessingway Ceremony, used to consecrate new or reinhabited dwellings. While much has been written on the Blessingway, prior to Frisbie's dissertation on which this article is bas...An approach to the ethnography of Navajo ceremonial performanceessay 1980 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a preliminary study offered by the author as an initial step in the job of identifying how an ethnography of Navajo ceremonial performance may be approached. Several important issues are discussed in reference to the ethnography of performanc...KinaaldáBook 1967 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of the girl's puberty ceremony, the KINAALDA. Frisbie draws on her own observations, interviews, and recordings, as well as those other field workers and ethnographers. She fully describes two ceremonies that she observed and discusse...Burial as a disposition mechanism for Navajo JISH or medicine bundlesarticle 1978 • Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this article Frisbie reviews the ethnogaphic and archaeological literature to discuss the disposal of medicine bundles (JISH) in burial sites. There is conflicting opinion even among Navajo whether it is proper to dispose of JISH in this way. Some...Tall womanBook 2001 • Mitchell, Rose, approximately & Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is the autobiography of a Navajo woman, Tall Woman (Rose Mitchell), who was reportedly born in 1874, six years after the Navajo people returned from incarceration at Fort Sumner in Arizona (1863-1868), and who died at the age of over102 in 1977....